Core 2 duo is motivated by mobil computing, which low power consumption, low is highly desired. Computer-based games are very popular, however, laptop buyers are not typical gamers. If 阳明's assertion is correct, intel won't spend so much resource in developing core 2, which is very different from Pentium. Multimedia is more than just games, people didn't use to do a lot of photo-editing, or making music and things like that. The diversity of application and the popularity of mobil computing are driving today's CPU development.

Xbox360, and Wii are both PowerPC based systems, and Platstation 3 is Cell which is based on PowerPC architecture. Which you don't see them in the PC market. These game stations are truly for gamers.